Your reasons for immigrating to USA

[EDINN2505 3]

1) Husband don´t speak portuguese and with the Brazil´s situation, even as a physician I can´t support the whole family;

2) I´ll have a much better salary in US as a physician (now in Brazil I receive U$280 for a 12h shift at the ER...);

3) Kids education;

4) Safety (Brazil was detected as the 6th most dangerous country in the world);

5) The antisemitism in Brazil is growing (we are a jewish family);

6) My husband has a great job in US that he is already for 7 years at the same company;

7) My family has tourist visas to visit me as the same that my hubby´s family can visit us too (His family is from Germany);

8) I don´t speak German and I´ll loose my graduation in Germany;

9) My hubby will have difficulties to support the whole family in Germany;

10) Kids don´t speak german;

And many others...

I think those ones are enough, right?

More than enough

He lives there and can't move right now maybe in 8 years

And no USC can't just live anywhere.

Believe it or not it's actually harder to immigrate to Denmark then it is to the US.

Well, they can't but it's a lot easier to immigrate some where as US citizen or example Romanian citizen. They also have one of the most powerful passports. Imagine how it is for me as Bosnian citizen when I can count countries I can visit without visa on my fingers.

I don't know but I've seen people going to Denmark to work, don't know on which basis, but they waited maybe a month to get permit. And then look at me, waiting for US visa for half a year almost and my friend, who got IR1 visa, he waited 1,5 years. Germany, Austria, I know a LOT of people that got permanent residency in less than a month.

I wish I could have another good option... This immigration process is taking my family health and is playing a burden on our pockets... Everyday I pray to handle that with at least food on my plate and no debt´s.

Things will get better. One just has to fight for himself and be smart about it.

[Georgia16 2,858]

More than enough

Well, they can't but it's a lot easier to immigrate some where as US citizen or example Romanian citizen. They also have one of the most powerful passports. Imagine how it is for me as Bosnian citizen when I can count countries I can visit without visa on my fingers.

I don't know but I've seen people going to Denmark to work, don't know on which basis, but they waited maybe a month to get permit. And then look at me, waiting for US visa for half a year almost and my friend, who got IR1 visa, he waited 1,5 years. Germany, Austria, I know a LOT of people that got permanent residency in less than a month.

Things will get better. One just has to fight for himself and be smart about it.

You are comparing work visa with immigrant visa. That can not be done it's 2 very different things.

[Scandi 4,189]

I don't know but I've seen people going to Denmark to work, don't know on which basis, but they waited maybe a month to get permit. And then look at me, waiting for US visa for half a year almost and my friend, who got IR1 visa, he waited 1,5 years. Germany, Austria, I know a LOT of people that got permanent residency in less than a month.

The waiting time to get residency in Sweden right now for someone outside of EU to live with a Swedish citizen is 16-19 months according to the Swedish migration board. It was 9 months in 2010.

[blondedoc 35]

More than enough

Well, they can't but it's a lot easier to immigrate some where as US citizen or example Romanian citizen. They also have one of the most powerful passports. Imagine how it is for me as Bosnian citizen when I can count countries I can visit without visa on my fingers.

I don't know but I've seen people going to Denmark to work, don't know on which basis, but they waited maybe a month to get permit. And then look at me, waiting for US visa for half a year almost and my friend, who got IR1 visa, he waited 1,5 years. Germany, Austria, I know a LOT of people that got permanent residency in less than a month.

Things will get better. One just has to fight for himself and be smart about it.

I hope so! For all immigrants! Many times I loose my hope but I'll never give up to be with my beloved hubby

[ttram312 10]

I came here to study at 15 then worked after college. That's when I met my husband. I think the main reason I choose to stay was because as long as you work hard, you can find a job and hsve a decent life. In Vietnam, it's all about who you know, and the work environment is not that good neither.

My husband moved here when he was 11 from Ukraine, and he used to live in poverty. So he appreciates his life here a lot. We may come back to our home countries to visit, but I don't think we'll move anywhere permanently.

[MordecaiRigby 29]

We lived together for over 3.5 years in Poland. We decided to move to USA mostly due to my husband's student loans (it makes no sense to pay them off in a foreign currency - you lose so much on currency exchange rates and transfer fees).

Also, my husband doesn't have a flair for languages, so in his 3.5 years in Poland he didn't learn much of the language (which is probably also partially my fault for not pushing him enough to learn) and so of course his employment options were quite limited without knowing the language.

After moving to the States he found a job as a social worker within 3 months and is quite happy with it. I hope I'll be able to find a rewarding job as well.

[Emilythorne 0]

Honestly, We didn't really plan to moved here in US, All i know was we already had that chance when i acquired my K1 visa and came here 9-10 years ago (i'm with the same person of course) it just that it didn't happened the way we planned it to be at that time, which made my husband to give a life in the Philippines a try (He stayed there longer than he stays here in US) and we have a pretty decent life over there, until last year when his dad started having health issues (he is 88 years old) He came back here to make sure he'll be here for his dad whatever happens (his dad had 2 episodes of stroke).

I came to visit last year just incase something happen at least i know i am here for him, but after being here for 3 months going back home seems like a bad idea, Maybe it's also because i finally came to appreciate it here, this just became my 2nd home and for some reason it feels right that we are here (like it is really meant to be).

I miss our life back home but here is where we are meant to be maybe those 9 years was just meant for us to strengthen our relationship, chase his business dreams, gave me more time to grow, it gave us a chance too to work on our differences and experienced a life together in my own country. If i were to choose, I would still just be happy visiting US once or twice a year but that's just getting too expensive and impractical, we are not getting any younger either! Also, every time i visit it gets a little harder to convince the IO at the Airport that i'm just here for a vacation specially considering our K1 history in their data base.

Settling down here in US makes so much sense now, and it happened to be our best option because this is where his kids are at, His Dad is getting older and older by the year and his business in the Philippines is not moving well anyway so no loss at that. at least here he can start working again and get back in his US roots. We have a chance to start a new and help each other reestablish stability.

As for me, i know it won't be easy specially just going through the AOS process it is stressful, enough to make me feel discourage but i know for sure this is where i would rather be. I can't imagine living my life apart from my Husband. Together We've been through a lot and i know we can get through this one.